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Donghui Zhang received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California—Riverside in 2002. His primary research area is databases. Before joining Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab in 2009, Donghui had worked as an Assistant Professor in Northeastern University, where his main research focus was spatial and temporal indexing and query processing. In 2004 Donghui has received an NSF CAREER Award: Fast Query Support for Emerging Spatial Database Applications. Donghui has graduated two Ph.D. students, has published over 50 technical papers, has served on NSF Panels twice, has served as a co-PC Chair for SSTD'07, and has served on the program committee for database conferences over 30 times. At Microsoft Donghui has investigated how to best utilize Flash SSDs to improve database server performance, and has researched on indexing support for in-memory databases.

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